Re: Alternative to a Stimpmeter

Not on TV it won't........errm, is that putt rolling across your TV screen
while you hold a stop watch on it rolling UP hill, or DOWN? Uh, a LOT
uphill, or a little? How much IS a lot, anyhow?
Oh, crap, we're back where we started, aren't we?
Oh, yeah, lets throw in that we don't know if the ball started with topspin,
hopped, skidded, or what, do we?

Again, my suggestion, if one simply MUST quantify the speed of a green is
make a home made ramp from a piece of 1/2 x 2 x 24 or so, drill a dimple in
the end to hold the ball in place until it reaches a certain incline, and
use it as a FY, Lee, or Schmitz-Josten meter.


"Paul Schmitz-Josten" <alossola@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:dk4ig8$hrs$04$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Mike Dalecki in <3sl4i9Fos4tsU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> >Hold on, Dave. How long a putt goes like that depends on how fast it's
> >gong to begin with, right? And how are you going to measure that?
>
>> The advantage of Dave's idea is that you may then measure the rolling
time
> of a putt on TV and get an impression of the green speed if only the
> putting lenght is given during a reportage, whereas you have no chance to
> take a Stimpmeter to that place from your home ;->
>
> Ciao,
>
> Paul


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